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...unnamed commander at the French naval commando center in Corsica, where underwater demolition divers are trained. The two are being held on charges of murder, arson and conspiracy. Police are searching for four alleged accomplices. More damaging evidence emerged last week from Politician Bernard Stasi, a member of the centrist opposition who was France's Minister of Overseas Territories in 1973 and 1974. Stasi told reporters that the intelligence agency had begun plotting as long as ten years ago against Greenpeace, which opposes, among other things, nuclear testing and the killing of whales...
...will increase pressure on Thatcher from moderate Tories, known as the "wets," to respond to Britain's 13.4% unemployment rate with stepped- up spending for public-sector jobs. The dissident Conservatives, including ex-Foreign Secretary Francis Pym, fear that unless the Prime Minister shows more compassion about unemployment, the centrist alliance between the Liberal and Social Democratic parties will continue to erode Tory support...
Both Republican and Democratic supporters of the aid package believe there is an analogy between the emerging U.S. policy in Nicaragua and Washington's experience in El Salvador several years ago. By backing away from a lawless right wing in El Salvador and embracing Centrist Jose Napoleon Duarte, wrote Oklahoma's McCurdy in a Washington Post op-ed article, the U.S. ended up "on the side of democracy and helped weaken both extremes, setting El Salvador on the road to a political settlement." Crossing the centrist "threshold" in Nicaragua, says Fortier, "could create a dynamic of its own, just...
...went down at the invitation of the Defense Department, which paid his way. "We've got our troops down here," he said. "We want to see how they're doing." Texas' participation, while generally popular in the gung-ho state, was criticized by some as politically motivated. White, a centrist Democrat not known for grandstanding, denied that he was boosting U.S. policy in the region. "I'm not trying to send any signals," he said, "except to support...
...extreme right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), led by Duarte's nemesis, former Army Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, and the center-right National Conciliation Party. The rightist grouping is expected to take 22 to 25 seats; it previously held 33. The remaining seats will probably go to centrist and center-right splinter parties. In simultaneous local balloting, according to preliminary estimates, Duarte's party was winning in about 200 of 262 municipalities...